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Muon colliders offer special opportunities to discover and study new physics. With the high intensity source of muons at the front end, orders of magnitude improvements would be realized in searches for rare muon processes, in deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Barger

Muography or muon radiography estimates the density distribution of natural or anthropic structures by measuring the traversing flux of atmospheric muons. Muography has been implemented to image volcanoes, glaciers, tunnels, line-shores,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Jesús Peña-Rodríguez

Cosmic ray muons have emerged as a non-conventional high-energy radiation probe to monitor dense and large objects. Muons are the most abundant cosmic radiation on Earth, however, their flux at sea level is approximately 10,000 min^-1m^-2…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

We present a detailed study of the magnetic properties of weakly ferromagnetic/quantum critical Nb$_{1-y}$Fe$_{2+y}$ using muon spin rotation and relaxation ($\mu$SR). By means of an angular dependent study of the muon spin rotation signal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-19 J. Willwater , D. Eppers , T. Kimmel , E. Sadrollahi , F. J. Litterst , F. M. Grosche , C. Baines , S. Süllow

In this article, we present MuMuPy, a computational library and cloud-based tool for calculating cross sections for the interaction of dimuonium (true muonium) with matter. MuMuPy calculates corresponding form factors and allows one to find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-23 Artem Uskov , Abdaljalel Alizzi , Z. K. Silagadze

This paper investigates the feasibility of re-purposing the MuCool Test Area (MTA) beamline and experimental hall to support a Muon Spin Resonance (MuSR) facility, which would make it the only such facility in the US. This report reviews…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 John A. Johnstone , Carol Johnstone

We present the results of muon-spin relaxation measurements of spin excitations in the one-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cu(pyz)(NO$_{3}$)$_{2}$. Using density-functional theory we propose muon sites and assess the degree…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Xiao , J. S. Möller , T. Lancaster , R. C. Williams , F. L. Pratt , S. J. Blundell , D. Ceresoli , A. M. Barton , J. L. Manson

The full exploitation of the physics potential of a multi-TeV muon collider will ultimately lie in the detector's ability to cope with unprecedented levels of machine-induced backgrounds. This contribution introduces the MUSIC (MUon System…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-21 Paolo Andreetto , Massimo Casarsa , Alessio Gianelle , Donatella Lucchesi , Leonardo Palombini , Lorenzo Sestini , Davide Zuliani

A new muon source has been proposed to conduct muon spin rotation/relaxation/resonance ($\mu$SR) measurements at China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). Only 1 Hz of the CSNS proton beams (25 Hz in total) will be allocated for muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-07 Jingyu Dong , Ziwen Pan , Tianyi Yang , Zebin Lin , Zhe Wang , Zhengyang He , Zhe Chen , Hantao Jing , Jingyu Tang , Jiandang Liu , Hongjun Zhang , Bangjiao Ye

This paper describes an undergraduate-level physics project that incorporates various aspects of machine- and electronics-shop technical development. The desktop muon detector is a self-contained apparatus that employs plastic scintillator…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-12-06 Spencer N. Axani , Janet M. Conrad , Conor Kirby

Transverse-field muon-spin rotation ($\mu$SR) experiments were performed on a single crystal sample of the non-centrosymmetric system MnSi. The observed angular dependence of the muon precession frequencies matches perfectly the one of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-11 A. Amato , P. Dalmas de Réotier , D. Andreica , A. Yaouanc , A. Suter , G. Lapertot , I. M. Pop , E. Morenzoni , P. Bonfà , F. Bernardini , R. De Renzi

With no concrete evidence for non-gravitational interactions of dark matter to date, it is natural to wonder whether dark matter couples predominantly to the Standard Model (SM)'s neutrinos. Neutrino interactions (and the possible existence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Jyotismita Adhikary , Kevin J. Kelly , Felix Kling , Sebastian Trojanowski

A review of the muon spin rotation and relaxation ($\mu$SR) studies on magnetic materials published from July 1993 is presented. It covers the investigation of magnetic phase diagrams, of spin dynamics and the analysis of the magnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 P Dalmas de Reotier , A Yaouanc

The use of a Si pixel-based particle tracking scheme in muSR will, among others, allow measurements using a ten-fold increased stopped muons rate and samples ten times smaller than currently possible. Here we present simulation results to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-27 Pascal Isenring , Zaher Salman

The Muon Collider, proposed under the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC), represents a groundbreaking advancement in circular collider technology. By using muons instead of protons or electrons, this collider has the potential…

The PSI low-energy $\mu$SR spectrometer is an instrument dedicated to muon spin rotation and relaxation measurements. Knowledge of the muon beam parameters such as spatial, kinetic energy and arrival-time distributions at the sample…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-19 Kim Siang Khaw , Aldo Antognini , Paolo Crivelli , Klaus Kirch , Elvezio Morenzoni , Zaher Salman , Andreas Suter , Thomas Prokscha

The installation of the muon telescope detector opened new possibilities for studying dimuon production at STAR. However, backgrounds from hadron punch-through and weak decays of pions and kaons make the identification of primary muons…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-21 J. D. Brandenburg , Frank Geurts

We report on an ab initio strategy based on Density Functional Theory to identify the muon sites. Two issues must be carefully addressed, muon delocalization about candidate interstitial sites and local structural relaxation of the atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-19 F. Bernardini , P. Bonfa` , S. Massidda , R. De Renzi

We introduce a new search strategy for visibly decaying muonphilic particles using a proton beam spectrometer modeled after the SpinQuest experiment at Fermilab. In this setup, a ${\sim}$100 GeV primary proton beam impinges on a thick fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Diana Forbes , Christian Herwig , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Cristina Mantilla Suarez , Nhan Tran , Andrew Whitbeck

SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) is a proposed experiment to be installed at CERN, with the aim of exploring the high intensity beam frontier to investigate the so-called Hidden sector. Since the SPS proton beam interacting with the SHiP…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Liliana Congedo